Friday, February 17, 2012

The Dick B. Shoemaker/A.A. Collection

The Dick B. Shoemaker/A.A. Collection

And

The Archival Notes of Dr. Jared Lobdell

[A major portion of the Dick B. Shoemaker Collection was
gathered together as described in the Dick B. comments below. Then, with the
help of benefactors, it was given into the temporary custody of Ray Grumney,
Archivist at Dr. Bob’s Home in Akron. Then it was turned over to Dr. Karen A.
Plavan, Professor in Pittsburgh, who arranged for its deposit and present
location in the “Shoemaker Room” at Calvary Episcopal Church in Pittsburgh.
Placed there, with the permission of The Rev. Dr. Harold Lewis, Rector of
Calvary Episcopal Church in Pittsburgh]

Except for the comments of Dick B. and the correction of
errata, this paper was written by Dr. Jared Lobdell as an Archival Note – the following:

Archival Note I: The Dick B. Shoemaker/A.A. Collection

Our next contribution provides a brief look at an archival
collection (not well known and recently relocated) which can supplement
materials at Brown. We hope in subsequent issues to note other collections
useful or adjunct to A.A. history, especially church-related collections.

[Comment by Dick B. in February, 2012:

Over many years of travels, investigations, interviews,
visits, acquisitions, and research, my son Ken and I gathered the Shoemaker
books, articles, pamphlets, Evangel issues, sermons, correspondence, news
articles, pictures, tapes, and other paper from all over the United States.

Examples and their sources are materials from (1) Hartford
Seminary, (2) Calvary Episcopal Church in New York, (3) St George’s Parish in
New York, (4) Princeton Alumni Archives, (5) interviews of the leaders of The
Pittsburgh Experiment, (6) interviews of the “golf club crowd” in Pittsburgh,
(7) Calvary Episcopal Church archives in Pittsburgh, (8) interviews of friends
of Sam Shoemaker in Pittsburgh, and the church archivist in Pittsburgh, (9) the
Vicar of Calvary Church in New York, (10) the Rector of Calvary/St/ George’s
Parish in New York, (11) Mrs. W. Irving Harris who turned over her entire
Shoemaker collection to me, (12) Shoemaker’s older daughter Sally Shoemaker
Robinson, (13) Shoemaker’s younger daughterNickie Shoemaker Haggart, (14) L. Parks Shipley, Sr., (14) Rev. Harry
Almond, (15) the personal journals of Sam Shoemaker, (16) comparative personal
journal entries in the journal of James Draper Newton, (17) Episcopal Church
Archives in Austin, Texas, (18) the library of James D. and Eleanor Forde
Newton, (19) the library of George Vondermuhll, Jr., (20) the library ofT. Willard Hunter, (21) Richard Ruffin,
Executive Director of MRA, (22) the national headquarters of Moral Re-Armament
in Washington, D.C., (23) interviews of Rev. Paul Everett, son in law of Norman
Vincent Peale, and a former director of The Pittsburgh Experiment, (24) interview
of Dr. Norman Vincent Peale, (25) Shoemaker books and papers owned by Dennis
Cassidy ofConnecticut, (26) Shoemaker
books and papers owned by Danny Whitmore of California, (27) interview and
books from Dr. Morris Martin of the Oxford Group, who was personal secretary to
Dr. Frank Buchman, (28) articles by Shoemaker in the A.A. Grapevine, (29) Faith
at Work, (30) Shoemaker correspondence and papers located at Stepping Stones
Archives, (31) Interviews, calls, and communications with British Oxford Group
authors and activists—(a) Garth Lean, (b) Kenneth Belden, (c) Kenneth Belden’s
son, (d) Michael Hutchinson, and (e) Several other British Oxford Group
authors, (32) Shoemaker books, articles, pamphlets, photos and papers purchased
by me or given to me by others, (33) listening to Shoemaker tapes, (4) Writings
and exchanges between Shoemaker and Wilson, (34) the work of a doctoral
candidate at St. Louis University, (35) the work of a doctoral candidate at
Princeton University, (36) a large number of Oxford Group and other writings
about Shoemaker.]

[Dr. Lobdell’s archival note continues: This note is based
on a communication

from Dick B. as edited.

1. New Light on Alcoholism: God, Sam Shoemaker,

and A.A. 2d ed Dick B.

This is Dick B.’s book on Shoemaker, his writings,

and his relationship with Bill Wilson and

Alcoholics Anonymous. There are useful appendices

and an extensive bibliography.

2. Other Titles by Dick B. pertaining to Rev.

Sam Shoemaker and A.A.

Dr. Bob and His Library, 3rd ed.

Anne Smith’s Journal, 1933-1939

The Books Early A.A.s Read for Spiritual

Growth, 7th ed.

Good Morning: Quiet Time, Morning Watch,

Meditation and Early A.A.

The Oxford Group and Alcoholics

Anonymous

The Akron Genesis of Alcoholics Anonymous

Making Known the Biblical History and

Roots of A.A.

3. Books written by Sam Shoemaker with date

published – fuller bibliographical description

in New Light on Alcoholism

A Young Man’s View of the Ministry, 1923

Beginning Your Ministry, 1963 (with jacket)

By the Power of God, 1954 (inscribed by

SHS, with jacket)

Calvary Church Yesterday and Today, 1936

Children of the Second Birth, 1927

Christ and This Crisis, 1943

Christ’s Words from the Cross, 1933

Confident Faith, 1932

Extraordinary Living for Ordinary Men,

1965 (with jacket)

Freedom and Faith, 1949

God’s Control, 1939 (with jacket)

How to Become a Christian, 1953

(with jacket)

How You Can Find Happiness, 1947

(with jacket)

How You Can Help Other People, 1946

(with jacket)

If I Be Lifted Up, 1931 (with jacket)

Living Your Life Today, 1947 (with jacket)

National Awakening, 1936 (with jacket)

One Boy’s Influence, 1925

Realizing Religion, 1921

Religion That Works, 1928

Revive Thy Church, 1948 (inscribed by SHS)

Sam Shoemaker at His Best, 1964

Steps of a Modern Disciple, 1972

The Church Alive, 1950 (with jacket)

The Church Can Save the World, 1938

The Conversion of the Church, 1932

(inscribed by SHS)

The Experiment of Faith, 1957 (with jacket)

The Gospel According to You, 1934

They’re on the Way, 1951 (with jacket)

Twice-Born Ministers, 1929

Under New Management, 1966

With the Holy Spirit and with Fire, 1960

(with jacket)

4. Important articles and pamphlets by

Shoemaker

Act As If, October, 1954

A First Century Christian Fellowship:

A Defense of So-called Buchmanism by

One of Its Leaders, 1928

God and America, Gramercy Park, n.d.

How to Find God, 1957

Lord, Teach Us to Pray, 1977

Morning Radio Talk No. 1, 1945

My Life Work and My Will, circa 1930

Power to Become, 1944

The Breadth and Narrowness of the Gospel,

1929 (fragment)

The Way to Find God, 1935

Creative Relationships, 1946

Calvary Mission, n.d.

What the Church Has to Learn From

Alcoholics Anonymous, 1956

5. Symposia edited by, and with chapters or

material by Shoemaker

Faith at Work. NY: Hawthorne Books, 1958

Together. NY: Abingdon-Cokesbury, 1956

The Centennial History of Calvary Episcopal

Church Pittsburgh, 1955

The Guideposts Trilogy. NY: Guideposts

Associates, 1962

Steps to a New Beginning. TN: Thomas

Nelson Publishers, 1993

Get Going Through Small Groups. NY:

Guideposts, n.d.

Marriage is for Living. MI: Zondervan, 1968

6. Shoemaker articles on the A.A. Program

And so from my heart I say, Sept. 1948

The Spiritual Angle, October, 1955

The Spiritual Path of A.A., n.d.

The Twelve Steps of A.A., 1953

Those Twelve Steps as I Understand Them,

1986

12 Steps to Power, 1983

7. Sam Shoemaker papers specifically

collected and copied by Dick B.

(a) Selected pages from the personal diary of

Rev. Sam Shoemaker for 1931, which discuss

the Firestone/Oxford Group/A.A. events

– 18 pages

(b) Selected pages from the personal diary of

Rev. Sam Shoemaker for 1935, which specifically

mention Bill Wilson and otherCalvary Church and Oxford Group
leaders of

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